Stephanie Seneff
BiographyStephanie Seneff received the B.S. degree in Biophysics from MIT in 1968, the M.S. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985, also from MIT. Her research interests have encompassed many aspects of the development of computer conversational systems, including speech recognition, natural language parsing, discourse and dialogue modelling, language generation, and information summarization. She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects, and has been invited to give keynote speeches at several international conferences. She has also supervised numerous Master's and PhD theses at MIT. She has served on the Speech Technical Committee for the IEEE Society for Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the Speech Communication Journal. She has also served as a member of the Permanent Council for the International Conference on Spoken LanguageSystems (ICSLP). In the last few years, Dr. Seneff has been shifting her research interests back towards biology, reflecting her undergraduate degree. She is concentrating mainly on the relationship between nutrition and health. She is first author on two publications in 2011 in medical journals, relating excess carbohydrate consumption with adverse health outcome. A blending of biology with dialogue systems is reflected in her recent efforts in developing spoken dialogue systems to allow users to search health-related grass-roots provided information from the Web. |
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